Andrew E. C. Gaska

The 2020-2024 ENnie and UKGE Award-winning settings and adventure writer for the ALIEN Roleplaying Game, Andrew is a creative director, designer, and sci-fi author with twenty years of industry experience. He was the narrative director and lead writer for the Terminator and T2 RPGs. He is the creative director of the Carbon Grey RPG and the Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes. Additional gaming work includes the Transformers RPG and the Werewolf: the Apocalypse RPG.

Outside of gaming, Andrew's prose writing includes novels set in the universes of Planet of the Apes and Buck Rogers. Choose Your Own Adventure adaptations and SPACE:1999 continuations are among his graphic novel work. He is the founder/creative director of the guerrilla-integrated media studio BLAM! Ventures and a freelance franchise consultant to 20th Century Studios, writing series bibles for the legacy franchises of ALIEN, Predator, and Planet of the Apes. He consulted on the video game ALIENS: Fireteam Elite from Cold Iron Studios. For seventeen years he was a visual consultant for Rockstar Games on titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption.

His blog at rogue-reviewer.com showcases political and entertainment essays and observations that draw controversial debate and discussion from all sides. Andrew and his gluttonous feline Adrien currently live in North Carolina beneath a mountain of action figures. Much to Drew’s bewilderment, Adrien can often be found perched atop this pinnacle of plastic, proclaiming himself ‘lord of the figs.’

As always, Drew amuses him.